Rob Mahurin wrote: > > how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking > > like this: > > > > From: <my "real name" here as I set it when adding a user account> > > <my user [EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Morpheus is, of course, my "hostname", or > > what I named my computer.) > > The solution that I used (and that I'm about to try again, now that > you've reminded me) is in the sendmail FAQ at > http://www.sendmail.org/faq/ . I think it's question 3.2.
I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't get it to work: ------------------- # more sendmail.mc divert(-1) divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.9.1a (Linux) 19981026') OSTYPE(debian)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG Cwmixing.qc.dfo.ca FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(nouucp)dnl define(`confMAILER_NAME', `postmaster')dnl define(`confME_TOO', True)dnl MAILER_DEFINITIONS MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) define(confUSERDB_SPEC, /etc/mail/users.db) FEATURE(notsticky) ------------------- However, I have an old sendmail.cf V8.7 file that works perfectly with /etc/mail/users.db (it sent this email). Any clues? -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/